How about describing your first use of a wood fired oven? Would be interested to know what you found to be the difference in cook time, taste, texture, preparation, etc. Tell us something about the oven... maybe a picture of the oven would be nice.

the taste was very nice, very different (than pizza made at home in a pizza stone)... but here in Sao Paulo (Brazil) we have allot of pizzerias (all Naples style) whit wood fire ovens.... so the taste that i was looking for, was accomplished !!!

My cousins name is Andre, so when I saw this post it looked familiar. But as I was going through my emails looking for something I saw the name again. Your email was one that stood out and I remembered it. So let me tell you..... CONGRATULATIONS on your new oven. It's exciting the first time you pull a pie out of an oven at high temperatures (anything over 800F) I know the feeling. Thanks for sharing your experience. We look forward to seeing more pictures. I love to travel..... some day I hope to make it to Brazil. When I do I know where I can get a slice of good pizza!!

PNW, well this oven is not mine, its a oven that my father in law has in his condo.... i think it was done special for the condo (for the space they had....

Willard, thanks for the kind words.... unfortunality this oven is not mine... hope to have one soon... maybe a 2stone one.... hope to get one from you... i live in a apartament so its hard to have a real oven...

thanks every one... soon ill post some new pictures.... (today iam going to a traditional italian party... the specialy is fried pizza... i post some pictures....

I lived in Brazil for several years, and those fried pastries filled with mozz (among other things) were a great pizza substitute. Are they called pizza frita in SP? In Belo Horizonte, they are called pasteis.

BTW, at my urging, my brother-in-law bought a forno a lenha (wood burning oven) last year. In Brazil, they are relatively inexpensive, about US$200-300 last time I checked. The same recipe that produced decent pizza in my home oven yielded the most exquisite pizza in the wood burning oven.

pizza frita are not pasteis.... (pasteis are made of another kind of dough).... and they (pizza frita) are not sold out of sao paulo (where the big italian community is).... unfortunately Belo Horizonte is not a great pizza rout... this is very common in Naples...

this pizza frita is a regular pizza dough, but they are fried.... very GOOD !!!